THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, do....... Leading Articles:-
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 22ND OCTOBER, 1896.
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A Missionary Scandal
.302 "Abolition of Extraterritoriality in Japan.....30% Mr. Parker on the Chinese Fiscal System .........303
Macao and Timor
The Conduct of the Japanese in Formosa
• Prospects of the Cotton Industry at Shanghai. Bailway Enterprise in Siam
The Formosa Court-Martial
.303 .........304
.304
.335
Supreme Court
.805
The Rebellion in the Philippines .
....306
The Japanese in Manila
The Condition of Affairs in the Philippines...
.....308
...307
Affairs in Formosa
.308
...308
The Volunteer Encampment....
.308
The Benevolent Society's Concert..
.310
Organ Bocital at Union Church
..310
An Exciting Voyage
The Navy League
....310 ..310
Hongkong Jockey Club.
..311
A European Charged with Arson at Shanghai
.311
Canton Insurance Office, Limited
.311
Raub
.312
Jelebu, Mining and Trading Co., Limited
.312
Hongkong Cricket Club..
.312
Hongkong Golf Club
.313
The R. A. Cricket Team at Swatow...
313
.313
The Japan-Shanghai Cricket Match...
The Japan Cricketers v. Shanghai Recreation Club ...312 The International Eight-oared Race at Shanghai ......314 Taxing of Chinese Manufactures
Mr. Dudgeon's Mission
Death of the Italian Minister
The Opening of Shashih....
The Opening of Hangchow
The Russo-Chinese "Secret Treaty"
A Salvage Claim.......
Hongkong and Port News...... Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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16th October (28 days); the American mail of the 21st September arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 19th October (28 days); and the German mail of the 21st September arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Preussen, on the 20th October (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Bubonic plague has broken ont at Bombay. The ports of Hangchow, Foochow, and Shasi were opened on the 1st October.
No. 17.
It is reported, says our Nagasaki contem- porary, that some very startling disclosures will commissioner has been making with a view to be the result of the enquiries which a special finding out the cause of the slow progress made by the Siberian Railway.
A Tokyo press despatch of the 6th October says:It is reported that, as a result of the reinvestigation of the Budget, the subsidy for steamship services to Formosa has been struck out, so that the service will be continued by the steamers chartered by the Army Department.
It is reported that a Japanese shipping syndicate has recently given out orders for steamers to the following builders:-Messrs.
At Kobe a Chinaman has been sentenced to A. M'Millan & Sons, Dumbarton, for two a year's hard labour for smoking opium.
The twelve survivors of the ill-fated Iltis are passengers for home by the Prinz Heinrich.
Japanese Post Offices are to be opened at Soochow and Shasi on the 1st November
next.
The Hongkong Volunteer Encampment, which proved a great success, was broken up
on the 19th October.
Major George F. Browne, D.S.O., North- amptonshire Regiment, has been selected for appointment as Military Attaché at Peking.
Senhor Horta e Costa, the Governor of 314 Macao, returned to his post from leave of ..814 absence on the 13th October and was accorded an enthusiastic welcome by the colonists.
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At Myrtle Bank, the Peak, on the 15th instant, the wife of CHANTREY INCHBALD, of a son. [2365 MARRIAGES.
On the 8th October, at Christ Church, Yokohama, by the Rev. E. C. Irwine, M.A., WALTER DOUGLAS, son of Walter GRAHAM, of Acton, Middlesex, to ELIZABETH, daughter of the late Henry Hux PHREYS, of Buckingham.
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On the 3rd October, at the Consulate,. Kiukiang, and afterwards at St. Paul's Church, by the Rev. 8. C. Partridge, ELIZA, eldest daughter of ALFRED CHURCH. Bromham, Bedford, tot ALEXANDER GAR- BOW, eldest son of the late ALEXANDER ELDER, Edinburgh.
At Shanghai, on the 8th October, 1895, at the Imperial German Consulate-General, by Dr. O. Stuebel, Consul General, and afterwards by Pastor H. Hickmann, Theo. Lic., at the Union Church, MARTHA, second daughter of A. KIRCHNER, of Shanghai, to AD. C. SCHOMBURG, of Shanghai.
DEATHS.
On board the Chinese Revenue steamer Kaipan, on the 14th October, 1896, Captain JAMES STEWART, aged 60 years.
[2358 On the 20th October, 1896, at the Mount Austin Hotel, Hongkong, Major GEORGE KENRICK MOORE, A.P.D. late South Wales Borderers, aged 39 years. [2401 On Sunday, 4th October, at No. 2, Range Villas, Shanghai, ADELAIDE, the beloved wife of Oscar MOLLER, Imperial Chinese Telegraphs, Shanghai.
At the General Hospital. Shanghai, on the 8th October, 1896, ELLEN, the beloved wife of W. SMYTH, aged 35 years.*
Latest advices received from Manila show that the rebels have been gathering strength and that the suppression of the movement will probably prove more difficult than had been anticipated.
Japanese Legations, it is said, are to be established in Hawaii, Mexico, and Brazil with Resident Ministers, and Consulates will be established at Antwerp, Chicago, Sydney, and Newchwang,
The Rangoon Gazette of the 26th September says:--Nothing definite has been so far heard from Peking regarding the demarcation of the Burmo-Chinese frontier, and it seems possible the work may be indefinitely postponed.
According to a Tokyo press despatch of the 3rd October, the ratified treaty of commerce with China was forwarded on the 30th ult. to Baron Hayashi in Peking. After the exchange of ratifications Baron Hayashi will return
home.
The appointment of the Hon. C. P. Chater and Hon. J. J. Bell-Irving to be unofficial mem- bers of the Executive Council of Hongkong is notified in the London Gazette of the 18th September; also the appointment of the Hon. Wai A Yuk to be an unofficial member of the Legislative Council.
The N. C. Daily News says:-With. Mr. W. M. Dowdall as expert adviser, the arbitrators, Messrs. G. Jamieson and L. Rocher, have assessed the foreshore at Chefoo confiscated from Messrs. Fergusson & Co. at TIs. 30,000. We understand that Mr. Dowdall's evidence was to the effect that the amount claimed by The English mail of the 18th September Messrs. Fergusson & Co. for their 18 mow, arrived, per P. & O. steamer Khedive, on the | Tls. 4,000 per mow, was a fair price.
-ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
steamers of about 3,500 tons each: Messrs. J. L. Thompson & Sons, Sunderland, for two steamers of about 3,500 tons each; and Messrs. Wigham Richardson & Co., Newcastle, for two steamers of about 3,500 tons each.-Japan Gazette.
The
the Custom and Harbour fees at Saigon the In connection with the new Regulations for following extract from a letter from H.B.M.'s Consul at Saigon has been published at Singa pore:- "Severe fines for trivial errors. case of the Borneo was an especially hard one, the ship having been fined $400 for the presence of a dozen pieces of cloth undeclared. Everything on board-cargo, stores, private goods not in actual use-must be declared in separate lists."
By a decree of the 11th October tele- graphed to the Hupao, we learn of the death of Fu K'un, an Imperial Clansman and retired ex-Grand Secretary. The deceased was well known to the Foreign Ministers at Peking, having been for many years an active member of the Tsungli Yamên. In this decree the Em- peror commands Prince Po Lun, with an escort of ten of the personal bodyguards of his Majesty, to go to the coffin of the deceased Grand Secretary and there sacrifice before it on behalf of the Emperor.-N. C. Daily News.
It does not appear to have been generally recognised in the East that Baron von Zedwitz, who lost his life by a yatching accident' on 17th August during the Royal Albert Yacht Club's Regatta at Southsea, was the same Baron von Zedwitz that served for several years in Tokyo as Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires of the German Legation. Such is the sad fact, however, and by all that had the pleasure of knowing him in Japan, a clever diplomat, a. sympathetic personality, and a brilliant masi- cian, his untimely and shooking death will be profoundly regretted.-Japan Mail.
In the Supreme Court at Shanghai on the 16th October three cases were heard in which shareholders in the Bank of China, Japan, and the Straits, in liquidation, were sued for amounts due by them for calls in the winding Judgment had in each case been recovered the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in England, and the present suits were brought to recover the amount due on the judgments. Judgment was given for the plain- tiffs in each case. The names of the defend. ants and the amounts sued for were as follows:
T. A. MacDonnell £409 98. 4d., C. H. Purcell £1,308 17s. 1d., and C. §. Taylor £1,481 4a, 2d.
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